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There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Mary Wortley Montagu
Age: 73 †
Born: 1689
Born: January 1
Died: 1762
Died: August 21
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Conscience is justice's best minister it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.
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One can never outlive one's vanity.
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We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
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Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.
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It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
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Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
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